Hello, I've been using various editing software for a while making silly home movies and the like but I was looking to get some real clout behind me and push for a job in editing or maybe start up editing old home movies. I've used adobe premiere in college and was looking to buy it so I downloaded a trial version to see whats what. I've read a few tutorials and wanted to publish a DVD to see what the quality compares to but after capturing my footage I found that I was missing a few codecs one of them being the MPEG2-DVD. The funny thing is that the trial version specifically states that it comes with this codec. I'm running windows 7 home prem, with an asus M4a88T-usb3 motherboard and a 6x speed AMD 2.4 processor. I'm ok with computers but I'm wondering if there's a problem with Windows 7 and this codec.

For output to DVD, you would use PrPro to edit, and then Encore (included with PrPro) to author your DVD. As of CS3, it is now always a two-step process (PrPro 2.0 had a rudimentary DVD authoring function, as Encore was not included, except with the Production Studio suite).

PrPro CS 5.5 is now a fully-functional trial, unlike previous trials, Encore, however is not part of the trial. See Trial Limitations.

Also, with Encore, there are several ways to get your edited Timeline to Encore for authoring a DVD.

Note that Adobe offers a 30-day, money-back guarantee, so if you buy the full-paid version, use it for 29 days, and do not like it, you can return it for your money back.

It should simply be a matter of selecting MPEG2-DVD from the Format dropdown in the Export Settings window. You'll wind up with an M2V video file and and audio file of various formats, depending on what you select. There are free/open-source DVD authoring applications available; your OS might even come with DVD authoring software.

So, while you can't fully create a DVD with the Adobe trial alone, you can still get there. If you're not seeing the MPEG2-DVD format option in the Export Settings, something is broken. Post back if that's the case.

Hmm... that's disturbing. That means the page I linked to is showing incorrect information:

The trial version of Adobe Premiere Pro CS5.5 includes all sequence
presets, editing modes, and encoders and decoders (codecs) that are
included in the full, activated version of Adobe Premiere Pro CS5.5.

Emphasis added.

I take "all... encoders" to mean just that--ALL encoders. That includes MPEG2 for DVD or whatever else. If that isn't the case, the lifted trial limitations are a myth, and that page should say so.

Yeah I looked into the encoders information when I was searching for why I didnt have the codec. So maybe its just a glitch or perhaps adobe dont want you to test it out. never mind I'll find a way around it. Thank you all for your help.

You could export a DV AVI, for example, and encode that in another application. You might be able to find an MPEG2 encoder that has a free trial, or again, an OS built-in DVD authoring application might be able to transcode it for you.

I'm going to try to get Adobe's attention on the trial issue; they need to be specific if things actually aren't included in the trial.

For reference, I was running on a machine (Mac) that had a licensed CS5.0 (5.0.3) and a trial CS5.5. 5.0 had the option, 5.5 didn't. I just used 5.0 until I got the upgrade license. Now it's all there (5.0 has been removed from the machine).

I just went down to the lab and did some test installations of the trial version of Premiere Pro CS5.5 on computers that had never had any Adobe software installed (clean OS images). In all cases, the MPEG-2 DVD format was available for export.

Since more than one person on this thread has had the opposite experience, it's clear that there's a bug somewhere, but I can at least say that for me (and for most folks), the trial version is correctly providing all of the codecs that are in the trial version.

One thing to make sure of is that you have all of the checkboxes checked for all of the components when you do the installation.